John Burke's a-Musings

Thursday 22 August 2024. Today we are in Zadar. We've been here before but I totally fail to recognise the port. We must have been moo...

Tuesday 6 August 1996. All those adventures in Mevagissy and it was still only just after lunch! We drove to Wendron Forge, which has a tin...

We moved house earlier this year, prompting cries of "Never again!" We've not moved far in terms of distance, but have moved...

Wednesday 22 May 2013. Early morning once again and also once again David and Jeannie are up on deck well before we tumble up the steps to ...

April 1983. We risked the tidal road over the salt marsh to Sunderland Point. It is a long disused port in Lancashire, at the mouth of the...

Back in 1982 a regular ride out was to the tiny port of Glasson Dock. Getting up the River Lune to the docks at Lancaster was extremely diff...

Monday, 15 August 2011. After a day at sea, whilst we sailed north past Croatia and other bits of what used to be Yugoslavia, the Thomson S...

10 August 2006. The Island Star has brought us to Barcelona on our first ever visit to mainland Spain. The port is a mixture of industrial...